Academics

German 273. Film and German Culture

This course offers an overview of the history of German cinema from 1919 until the present. Students will be introduced to the political, economic, and social conditions of Germany during the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the post-war and post-wall era. As we study the larger socio-historical and cultural context of the films, we will learn how German identity has changed over the last century.

Connections

Increasingly, fictional film is used as a lens to view the social dynamics of the society that produced the film. Analysts, critics and theorists rely on a variety of conceptual frameworks and models to interpret, analyze and assess these texts and the history of their production and audience reception. These approaches include film studies, culture […]